This is the cue card that Walt Cunningham held up during the Apollo 7 mission as a question for Paul Haney, NASA Public Affairs Officer and “Voice of Mission Control”. The question refers to the Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles. Once inducted, a member must reply to the question, “Are you a turtle?” with […]
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My favorite artifact in my collection is this fantastic Command Module Rotational Controller Handle used on Apollo 12, which I acquired from the personal collection of Apollo 12 Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean. It is a milled aluminum handle, approximately 4.5″ tall with a black “trigger” and indented finger grips. This “joystick” was used in
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This Apollo 17 T&D cue card was an important tool during the outbound journey from the earth to the moon. It was used to ensure the correct sequence of maneuvers to execute the transposition and docking of the Command /Service Module (CSM) with the Lunar Module (LM) which for liftoff had been located in the
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This bracket was carried to the moon and used aboard the Lunar Module Snoopy during the Apollo 10 mission in May 1969. The L Bracket was the connection between the 16mm Maura Data Acquisition Camera and the LM Utility bracket. The bracket attached directly to the camera and the LM Utility (which could hold either
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For most Apollo missions, the stowage lists show that each astronaut carried a Garland mechanical pencil. According to Chris Spain’s excellent Space Flown Artifacts site, despite the worldwide fame of the Fisher Space Pen it is probably the humble Garland mechanical pencil that was the most heavily-used writing instrument on the Apollo missions. In total,
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This star chart panel was one of the metal guidance and control panels used at the navigation station in the lower equipment bay of the Command Module. This particular example was flown on Apollo 9 and comes from the Jim McDivitt collection. These panels were a quick reference to information required for spacecraft maneuvers made
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This Apollo–Soyuz Test Project DP Boost cue card measuring 2.25 x 4″ is directly from the Deke Slayton collection. On the reverse of the card is a museum inventory control number from the time that the card was on display at the Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville, FL and the Air and Space Museum
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This oddly shaped cue card fit snugly into a particular spot on the command module control panel. The cue card provides quick instructions for problems faced by the crew. I really like this cue card because some of the issues it deals with – such as Oxygen, CO2, Glycol, and Cyro – uses instrument readouts
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This cue card was from the personal collection of Fred W. Haise, Apollo 13 Lunar Module Pilot. The information that Haise supplied about the card reads: “This cue card was carried around the moon on the flight of Apollo 13 during April 11 to 17, 1971. This card was positioned on the instrument panel with
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This is a circular chunk of the heat shield from Apollo 9. Heat shields were manufactured by AVCO Corporation, with integration by NAA (North American Aviation), and are comprised of an extremely lightweight fiberglass honeycomb which is hand filled by air gun with the ablative resin material. The ablative system dissipates heat as the material
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